Perfect Loc’n for a small business owner or contractor in need of a PRIVATE GATED Multi use property. Centrally located and close to Major Commute Arteries in Campbell. The property also has a detached Artist Studio which would be GREAT for extra storage. Wired for 220 Amp. LARGE LOT w/ room for your Trucks, Tools, Toys, ETC. New DBL Pane Wndws, wood paneling, fresh paint. Zoned Multi Use per City.

Mystery properties pop up from time to time in Campbell. This is one of them. What’s going on here?

Here’s some additional photos:

And, of course, the location:

And this picture:

Alright… I’m stumped. What gives with this property? How did this come to be? What can you do with this property?

October 5, 2009

Beds: 2
Baths: 1
Sq. Ft.: 825
$/Sq. Ft.: $682
Lot Size: 9,233 Sq. Ft.
Property Type: Detached Single Family
Style: Cottage/Bungalow
Stories: 1
View: Neighborhood
Year Built: 1901
Community: Campbell
County: Santa Clara
MLS#: 80937293
Source: MLSListings
Status: Active
On Redfin: 35 days
Value is in the land. Investor Special. Build your dream house in downtown Campbell. You can demolish the front house and move the rear house to the front, or you can demolish both. Property is zoned PD. At least 2 units will fit, maybe more. Check with city. Property to be sold AS IS. Adjacent lot MLS# 80940201 also for sale. Buy one or both and develop. age of house unknown.

Holy moley. What’s going on here?

I know… I bet if we looked at all the photos, we can make sense of this!

Let’s give it a try:

Hm. That wasn’t quite as explanatory as I thought it would be.

Can you come up with a story to explain what happened here in Campbell? Challenge: Alien abduction references not allowed.

This Realtor is clearly tapping the interest and news surrounding recent abduction recovery events, to present to you 1117 Hazelwood Ave in Campbell.

Have you thought about starting your own compound? If so, this house is for you. Just look at how versatile the yard can be! You can have all sorts of shacks, tents, RV’s, vans, trailers in the back. And, with the fence, you can keep those nosey neighbors out!

Privacy, flexibility – this house has it all for you. It’s just waiting for you to bring your imagination. Maybe you could even open a small amusement park!

Who says that the price per square foot in the Bay Area is astronomical! At $289 per square foot, this is plenty affordable – you just need to buy plenty of it! Buy more and save – you know how it goes!

But all seriousness, one thing I hear all the time is “Gosh, mansions in the Bay Area are so unaffordable! How can I live without a guest wing?” Well… this house solves that problem.

Let’s take a look at your mansion-y neighborhood:

Wow… nothing says champagne wishes and caviar dreams quite like this!

Actually this is a good thing since you’ll have plenty affordable housing for your army of servents. Win win!

February 27, 2009

Beds: 4
Baths: 3
Sq. Ft.: 3,181
$/Sq. Ft.: $405
Lot Size: 9,072 Sq. Ft.
Property Type: Detached Single Family
Style: Ranch
Year Built: 2009
Stories: 1
View: Neighborhood
Neighborhood: Campbell
County: Santa Clara
MLS#: 80905491
Source: MLSListings
Status: Active
On Redfin: 14 days
Open Saturday 2/14 1:30-4:30pm. Brand new custom built home in the heart of Campbell. Constructed with attention paid to detail for the fussiest of buyers who want to move in and put their feet up. High ceilings, custom crown moldings, 2 clean air certified fireplaces, top of the line GE Appliances, built in espresso machine.

People ask me all the time – Burbed, what’s the next hot area to buy into?

My answer? I have no freakin’ clue.

Burbed reader Eric does though – look what he’s found in Campbell! Holy moley! It’s a 3000 square foot house that’s $1.289 million! It’s even got 2 clean air certified fireplaces – for all those times that you need to use a fireplace in the Bay Area!

Wow… even built in espresso machines. This is hot hot hot.

With more houses like this, Campbell might just be entering Real Bay Area territory soon!

Like a true Silicon Valley entrepreneur, the next owner of this house will have no problems easily pulling in over $100k per year running a day care. Just thing, you can have your cake, eat it too, and then write it off! It’s a Win-Win-Win if you ask me!

At night, I dream not of sugar plum fairies, but opportunities to monetize my residence. Talk about House 3.0!

Better buy this house and get an MBA, because you’ll need another degree to manage this incredible moneymaker.

Top condition indeed. Let’s take a look at some photos, and see why long time Burbed reader Brendan
sent this in:

OMG. Who lives in this house? Is it the Pope? (No, he lives in Willow Glen remember?)

Why, of course, Sherlock Holmes lives here! Just think, you come home from a long day of work at eBay as one of their fraud detectives, you take off your hat, put on your robe and puff away at your pipe. You admire the Greek and Roman antiquities you acquired – appreciating how they were all made in places like Shenzen. You sip on your glass of aged port and wonder… what is Moriarty294’s next move? Will he pose as a Nigerian buyer? A high ranking Nigerian military official? Will he collude with others to rig a sale? So many questions – and luckily you have strong deductive reasoning skills. After all, you deduced that this house would be a great buy!

You’ll then think about stagers, and what happens when you give them a bucket of money and say “Make my place look fantastic.”

Frankly, if these photos don’t sell you on buying this house? I don’t know what will.

UPDATE: Fixed a typo. Also, a Burbed reader reports that this actually isn’t staging – that this is how the place actually looks as per the seller. WHOA.

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